PRONOUN

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PRONOUN

Pronoun is a word used for nouns (nouns) that can take the form of people, objects, animals,
places, or abstract concepts.

The nouns that are one of the eight parts of speech can be divided into:

 Personal Pronoun
 Demonstrative Pronoun
 Interrogative Pronoun
 Relative Pronoun
 Indefinite Pronoun
 Reflexive Pronoun
 Pronoun intensive
 Reciprocal Pronoun
 Expletive Pronoun
 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Kinds and Examples of Pronoun Sentences:

1. Personal Pronoun
Personal pronouns are pronouns that are used specifically for people, animals, things or
objects. These pronouns depend on the roles (subject, object, possessiveness), number,
person, and gender of the replaced noun.

Case
Number Person
Subjective Objective Possessive

1st I me mine

Singular 2nd You you Yours

3rd she, he, it her, him, it hers, his

Plural 1st We us Ours

 2nd You you Yours

3rd They them Theirs

Examples of Personal Pronoun Sentences:

 She prefers to brisk walk to jog.

(He prefers brisk walking than jogging.) Singular, 1st person, subject

 Yours is on the table.

(Yours on the table.) Singular, 2nd person, subject

2. Demonstrative Pronoun

Demonstrative pronoun is a pronoun that uses the parameter number (number) and distance
(distance). The pronouns that are replaced are generally in the form of objects, but can also
be people or things.

Number Distance Pronoun

far that
Singular
near this

far those
Plural
near these

Examples of Pronoun Demonstrative Sentences:

 This is the most interesting book I've ever read.

 Is this your wallet?
3. Interrogative Pronoun

Interrogative pronoun is a pronoun used to make questions. These English pronouns

include:

 who (ever)
 what (ever)
 which (ever)
 whose
 whom

Examples of Interrogative Pronoun Sentences:

 Who is that man?

 What are you doing?

4. Relative Pronoun

Relative Pronoun is a pronoun to form a relative clause (adjective clause). In relative

clause, the relative pronoun can function as a subject, direct object, or possessive. These
pronouns include:

 who (ever)
 whom (ever)
 whose
 which (ever)
 that

Examples of Relative Pronoun Sentences:

 The book which I bought yesterday is really interesting.

 The person whom (who = informal) you met yesterday was my neighbor.

5. Indefinite Pronoun
Indefinite pronoun is a pronoun for people, things, or things in general (not specific). These
pronouns are singular, plural, or one of the two.
Example Indefinite Pronoun:

Singular  anybody/anyone
 everybody/everyone
 somebody, someone, one
 nobody
 anything
 everything
 something
 nothing
 another
 each
 either
 neither
 enough
 little
 less
 much

Plural  both
 several
 many
 few
 fewer
 ones

Singular / Plural  all

 none
 some
 any more
 most

Example of Indefinite Pronoun Sentences:

 You did everything right.

 She said something about going home.
6. Reflexive Pronoun

Reflexive Pronoun is a pronoun used to state that the subject of a sentence receives an action
from a verb (reciprocal action).

Singular myself, yourself, herself, himself, itself

Plural yourselves, ourselves, themselves

Examples of Reflexive Pronoun Sentences:

 I am going to buy myself new jeans.

 Stop blaming yourself.

7. Intensive Pronoun

Intensive pronoun is a pronoun used to emphasize the antecedent (noun or other pronoun
which is intensive pronoun in a sentence referring to it). The shape is the same as the
reflexive pronoun.

Examples of Pronoun Intensive Sentences:

 The bedroom itself is fine, but the bathroom is cramped.

 I believe happiness is a choice and therefore I myself am responsible for my own
happiness.

8. Reciprocal Pronoun
Reciprocal Pronoun is a pronoun used in conditions when two or more subjects perform the
same action against one another. This pronoun consists of: each other and one another.
Examples of Reciprocal Pronoun Sentences:
 They love each other.
 The five mountaineers helped one another during the storm.
9. Expletive Pronoun
Expletive is "empty words" or words that do not add meaning, but are useful to emphasize
certain parts of a sentence. There / it is used with verb be to form expletive construction.
Examples of Expletive Pronoun Sentences:
 There is no food in my house.
 It was easy to meet him.

10. Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement

Pronoun-antecedent agreement is a match between pronoun and antecedent in terms of

number, person, and gender. Antecedents themselves are words, phrases, or clauses that
are replaced by pronoun. This agreement is needed of course if there are both in the
sentence.

Example Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement Sentence:

 You should take it off yours there.

You = antecedent, yours = pronoun

 I had completed my own tasks, and my colleagues tried to dump theirs on me.

Colleagues = antecedent, theirs = pronoun

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What is a Pronoun? http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/pronouns.html.

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